‘New armoured dinosaur named for museum professor’ by Taylor &Francis, as they admit this newly discovered dinosaur was buried on the Isle of Wight when “the Isle of Wight would have had a climate similar to that of the Mediterranean and was a flood plain covered by a large meandering river system. Floods would have […]
Category: Geology & Earth Science
A Treasure Trove of Welsh Fossils
Palaeontologists in Wales have found a deposit very well preserved fossils described as “a highly diverse Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna”. The fossil deposit is dated as 462 million years, over 20 million years after the Cambrian period in the evolutionary timetable. The fossils include some well-known Cambrian creatures that are now extinct, as well […]
Meteoric Search for Earth’s Water
Scientists looking for the origin of Earth’s water have been studying the composition of meteorites. According to current theories of planet formation the earth was formed by gas, dust and rocky objects called planetesimals coalescing to form a solid rocky planet, and this process results in the formation of a hot molten mass that must […]
Oldest Pterodactyl
Oldest Pterodactyl found in limestone quarry. Researchers in Germany have studied an “exquisitely preserved” fossil of Pterodactylus antiquus – an extinct flying reptile, dated as 152 million years old. This makes it the oldest specimen of this species of flying reptile. The fossil is almost complete, with only a few fragments missing. The scientists wrote […]
Rich Diversity of Fossils From “The ‘Dead’ Heart of Australia”
A team of researchers in Australia have been studying a mass of exquisitely preserved fossils found in the Central Tablelands in the Australian state of New South Wales. The deposit contains a great variety of plants and animals, including insects, spiders, fish and a bird feather. The fossils are so well preserved that microscopic structures […]
Melting Glaciers Make More Salmon Rivers
Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest of USA and Canada are melting and turning into streams of flowing fresh water. Scientists from the University of Birmingham have studied some of these new rivers and found salmon had colonised them when migrating from the ocean into rivers in order to spawn. These scientists have joined with Kara […]
Cyclones, Heatwaves, Droughts and Floods Are Our Fault,
Cyclones, heatwaves, droughts and floods are our fault, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in their Sixth Assessment Report 9 August 2021. They state: “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred”. The report […]
Did you Fry in July?
Did you fry in July? It “was Earth’s hottest month on record” according to a report from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 13 August 2021. Similar alarmist headlines were also published on ScienceDaily 13 August 2021, BBC News and ABC News 14 August 2021, and Science Alert 16 August 2021 (and numerous other news […]
Mass Baby Burial
Mass baby burial of 1400 juvenile animals, according to reports in ScienceDaily and Penn State News 28 June 2021 and Nature Ecology and Evolution 28 June 2021, doi: 10.1038/s41559-021-01490-4. Palaeontologists have found an exceptionally preserved trove of soft bodied invertebrate fossils from a rock formation named the Haiyan Lagerstätte located in Haiyan, China. The term […]
Stalagmite Notable Quotable
Stalagmite Notable Quotable:Stalagmites are the calcite growth on the cave floor under dripping stalactites. Stalagmites are the ones you might trip over. Most researchers concentrate on measuring the slow growth of the mites and tites to bolster old earth claims. New growth rate claims for mites makes interesting reading:“The annual average laminated stalagmite vertical growth […]